(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Alright, we all know in the very beginning we COULD NOT hear footsteps no matter how loud the volume was, supposedly a mess up on Treyarch's part. Thankfully they fixed it, and now we can here footsteps all fine and dandy right? Wrong? How so?
I got some Tritton Ax-702's over the weekend for Christmas, so I haven't been in the sound-whoring world for very long(great headset, recommend it), but I have been getting annoyed lately, almost to the point of going back to MW2, because it's rendering this headset useless. It seems to me that Treyarch put background noise in the game, just to disrupt sound-whoring. Now this may seem not likely, but doesn't sound far-off with how Treyarch has been lately. If you notice, on WMD you have the train, RIGHT by A site. If you ever plant there, be sure you aren't hearing ANYTHING BUT the train. You can hear it all the way on the other side of the map, and it is still loud, obnoxious, and most of all, blocks out the sounds of footsteps.
On Villa, we have all seen the lightning, right? Well did you guys know there was thunder? I didn't ever hear this until my headset. Literally the first game I play on Villa, I though my headset was defective, only to find out the thunder had the bass going in the headset. It's amazingly loud, and like the train, blocks out footsteps. Now I know the thunder only calls out every once in a while, and the train only comes by once, to my knowledge, hell, you could even say the rocket on Launch is just as annoying.
I ALSO notice the in-game music is REALLY annoying, which is why I like to have the option to mute it, because quite frankly, I don't want a solo played specifically for me when I'm the last one left if it is louder than anything else, even gun shots. Not to mention it puts you out of that "I'm going to clutch" trance. Kind of like when you're trying to fall asleep, you're halfway there, and then some random object makes a cracking noise, bringing your attention to it, making you restart the process. I KNOW I can clutch it, 3 v 1, 5 v 1, hell even 6 v 1 I have done at least once in my career of CoD, but when that music it rings out, it just DESTROYS the mood, and It's almost like I don't feel like playing Black Ops anymore.
These are the only 2(3 if you count Launch) maps that I notice, and disrupts my gameplay. I don't know if there are other "disruptive" noises on those maps besides the music, but I consciously notice those 2. Maybe when I play I get so into it that I don't notice the other ones? I want to experiment when I go on next time, to see if changing the audio settings from, Headset and Loud, to other options, such as maybe, TV speakers and quiet, changes anything, because HONESTLY, I believe those sounds were NOT that loud when it was going through the TV. Maybe it's the headset itsself, maybe not. Who knows?
Do you guys notice anything of this nature in any of the other maps? If Treyarch did this on purpose, shame on them, I can't believe that my $130 headset that I begged my dad into getting me is now rendered useless at the only moment I ever need it. It's unbelievably selfish. I don't know about you guys, but I think Treyarch made this game more for the casuals. No quickscoping, stopping power or juggernaught? No more use for a headset, and an option to play against computer controlled enemies. I honestly wanted to like this game, but at each corner I turn, it seems the more reality is setting in on me. Treyarch doesn't care.

Wall of text, tl;dr.

Cry more.

Turn voice volume down to five.
Music down to two or three
and the other two on full.

Set the sound to quiet
And sound output to surround headphones.

If that doesn't work you are doing something wrong because soundwhoring works just as well in this game, even better seeing as they combined sitrep pro with ninja.

[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd3x0P8431M]YouTube - BillyTheBully - Black Ops Game Clip[/ame]
Proof enough, I can get tons more if you need more proof but I found this one funny as well as a perfect example that headsets do work perfectly in this game.

Its a piece of piss to sound whore. I can hear people running on the other side of the map and i am not even that good at it. There is one person in my clan who is the greatest i have ever seen. He knows if they are above, below you etc. You just need to learn the sound cues.

thanks will try this out

edit, what do you mean by two or three? do you mean the coloured orange bars on the options

im like that lol :d

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yes those are the ones hes talking about

I play with Tritton Pro's and two days ago I was in a Private Match playing 1v1 Sniping and I had my REAR SOUND on RED "as loud as it gets" and I did hear my friend try to approach me from the back and I told him "You ain't gonna shoot me in the back" I then realized ohh $hit I can hear foot steps again so I went into MP and tried it......FAILLLLLL couldn't hear $HIT of course I did have NINJA on just in case but in MW2 you didn't need anything and you could clearly hear the other players soo ehhh.

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I'm going to try it with your settings, Thanks!

In Audio Options, go to the option were you can choose what your audio set-up is, and then set the parameter to 'TV'. Soundwhoring enabled, problem solved.

surely surround sound > tv setting?

Surround Headset = TV setting

The game is coded to add noise when the paramater is set to a Surround Headset.